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red jugular band and line on each side of the throat are much more coppery, 

 less crimson, the green of the breast and abdomen is much less yellowish. These 

 differences, however, are not likely to be of any taxonomic value, as the colour 

 of metallic jiarts varies much according to treatment — carbolic acid, for example, 

 altering them completely, also the process of roasting the skins over fire, which, 

 is a})pareutly resorted to by many Papuans. 



2 c? ad., 4 S juv., 6 ?; Mount Goliath, not less than 5000 ft., January and 

 February 1011. (Nos. 5127, 5128, 5139, 5150, 5268, 5269, 5271, 5318, 5389, 5431, 

 5463, A. S. Meek Coll., one without label.) 



" Iris black ; bill black ; feet slaty-blue." 



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210. Falcinellus striatus atratus Rothsch. & Hart. 



Falcinellus sirialus atralim Rothschild and Hai'tert, Nui\ Zuul. 1911, p. 160 (Mt. Goliath, A. S. Meek 

 Coll., type in Tring Museum). 



1 S ad., 2 c? juv., 3 ? ad., 1 ? pull. ; Mt. Goliath, January and February 

 1911. (Nos. 5100, 5126, 5306, 5369, 5370, 5413, 5401, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



A second adult male has been presented by Mr. A. S. Meek to the Governor- 

 General of the Dutch East Indies. 



\/211. Seleucides ignotus ignotus (Forst.). 



Puradista iguola Forster, Ind. Zuol, pp. 31, 3G (1781— New Guinea); van Oort, Nora Giiineaix^ 

 Zool. i. p. 101. 



cJ juv. ; Upper Setekwa River, 21. vii. 1910. (No. 4403, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 c? ad. in moult, cj juv. ; Eilauden River, 15, 21. .\ii. 1910. (Nos. 5072, 5084, 

 A. S. Meek Coll.) 



If 212. Ptiloris magnificus (Vieill.). 



Falcinellus magmjtcus VieiUot, Nom: Diet. d'Hisl. Nat. x.xviii. p. 167. pi. G.3'.1. fig. 3 (1819). 



(?? ad.; Upper Setekwa River, 29. vii., 2. viii. 1910. (Nos. 4448, 4468,. 

 A. 8. Meek (Joll.) 



S juv., 3 ? ad. ; Snow Mountains, 2000-3000 ft., September to November 1910. 

 (Nos. 4695, 4719, 4823, 4950, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



S ad., c? juv. ; Upper Eilanden River, 3. iii. 1911. (Nos. 5471, 5472, A. S. 

 Meek Coll.) 



/ 213. Pteridophora alberti A. B. Meyer. 



Pteridophora alberli A. B. Meyer, Bull. B.O. Club iv. p. 11 (1894— ''East of Ambernoh River," 

 according to Mr. Duivenbode) ; van Oort, Notes Lei/den Museum xxx. p. 241. 



S in full moult, with blue appendages only an inch long ; Mt. Goliath, 6. ii. 1911. 

 (No. 5319, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



" Iris brown ; bill black ; feet dark brown." 



-^ 214. Lophorina superba minor Rams. (?). 



Litjiliorinii siijirr/ia iniiiiii- Ramsay, Pi-oc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales x. p. 245 (1885— Owen Stanley 

 Mountains, Haustein leg.). 



? juv. ; Snow Mountains, 3000 ft., 19. .\. 1910. (No. 4858, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



" Iris pale steel-bine ; bill black ; feet Vandyke brown." 



This is the youngest Lophorina we have seen ; the head is not black, but. 



